iOS 5 By Tutorials Updated

The excellent ebook iOS 5 by Tutorials has been updated for Xcode 4.5 and iOS 6. Created by the team at the indispensable iOS developer site RayWenderlich.com, this book is for intermediate to advanced iOS developers who want to know about ARC, storyboards, iCloud, Game Center, Core Image, JSON parsing support, Twitter support, the APIs for the address book, location, calendar and more. It’s been updated to cover the new language features in Objective-C (which I talked about in an earlier article) as well as some new enhancements that came with iOS 6.

iOS 6 (I guess?) by Tutorials should be great. When learning new bits of iOS I have raywenderlich.com open up all the time. They cover such a broad array of topics and the tutorials are great whether you want to follow them from start to end, or just want to skim through and see the step by step of various tasks.

They do a good job of explaining abstract concepts too I find.

On WP8, I’m surprised (but not really) that it’s launching only a few days after the Surface launch.

I view the whole MS Platform launch as a developer preview right now, everything I’m seeing says it’s not really ready for primetime and they are “beta” testing a bunch of approaches, 3 keyboards, 2 versions of IE, 2 versions of Windows 8. It’s like nobody at MS can make decision and run with it…